WXZY-LP (101.7 FM) is a community focused non-profit radio station in

Kane, Pennsylvania Kane is a borough in McKean County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, east by southeast of Erie. It was founded in 1864 by Civil War General Thomas L. Kane of the famous Bucktail Regiment at an elevated site 2210 feet (674 m) above sea level. ...

, licensed by the FCC as a low-power FM (LPFM) and operating as a full-service station with a freeform format.http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WXZY Local coverage includes local events, news, and sports. The station also broadcasts a wide variety of music, with specialty programming every weekend. Weather forecasts are provided by

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History

This station received its original

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from the

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on January 15,

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. The new station was assigned the WXZY-LP

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by the FCC on January 29, 2014. The station received its license to cover from the FCC on August 14, 2014. WXZY-LP marks the return of FCC-licensed, locally originated radio to Kane after two previous commercial stations no longer broadcast there. AM 960

WQLE WQLE (960 AM) was the last official call sign of a now defunct radio station in Kane, Pennsylvania. History McKean County's first full-time radio station WQLE signed on as WADP on June 7, 1954, under the ownership of Northern Allegheny Broadca ...

(the former WKZA), the first station in Kane, ceased broadcasting in 1992, while what is now WCOP (the former WLMI) moved to another town in the early 2010s. From its inception in 2014 until 2018, WXZY operated out of WLMI's former studios at 97 Fraley Street in Kane. In 2018, WXZY purchased the radio tower directly behind the studio and erected a new building at its base, that would serve as their new studio. Public broadcaster WPSX and religious broadcaster

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(the latter of which owns WCOP) both have repeaters in the borough that do not originate any programs from Kane.

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External links

* XZY-LP {{Pennsylvania-radio-station-stub